David Powell
Head of Technical Underwriting
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David is a casualty specialist and has management responsibility for the LMA’s technical underwriting and wordings work, including all non-marine insurance and reinsurance lines.
Leigh Allen
Executive, Technical Underwriting
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Leigh joined the Lloyd’s Motor Underwriters Association in 1995, which later merged with the LMA in 2005. Leigh assists David Powell in the secretarial duties relating to motor business panels and provides support in the running of the Political Risks, Terrorism and UK Property and Household Business Panels.
Ida Celentano
Executive, Technical Underwriting
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Ida Celentano has been working in the insurance industry since 2017 and has experience across various classes of business and different aspects of the insurance market. Ida has now joined the LMA as of June 2023 as an Executive, Technical Underwriting.
Katie Clark
Executive, Technical Underwriting
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Katie joined the LMA in July 2021. She is a law graduate and joins us from Faraday.
Toby Clark
Executive, Technical Underwriting
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As an Executive, Technical Underwriting, Toby works on wordings production, helping to draft and review LMA model wordings. He provides technical support to members and conducts research relevant to the market. Toby also represents the LMA at meetings and on external groups. Prior to joining the LMA, he spent some time working in schools.
Toby holds a BA in Politics.
Steven Dennis
Senior Executive, Technical Underwriting
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Steven Dennis joined the LMA in February 2022.
Dele Fajimolu
Senior Executive, Technical Underwriting
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Senior Executive, Technical Underwriting
Dele joined the LMA in October 2022 as Senior Executive, Technical Underwriting where he focuses on the energy portfolio.
Dele joined us from Allied World Europe (2004 – 2022), where he was Vice President – Claims, working across Property & Energy, Construction, Aviation & Marine.
Pushkar Gadam
Senior Executive, Technical Underwriting
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Pushkar joined the LMA in September 2025 as part of our marine team, where he represents the interests of marine underwriters across the London market. As part of his role, Pushkar will help develop model marine wordings, interact with key stakeholders and work with our members across the Joint Committees.
Prior to joining the LMA, Pushkar held positions at Lloyd’s within the global marine services and broker oversight team.
Claudia Goodridge
Senior Executive, Technical Underwriting
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Senior Executive, Technical Underwriting
Claudia is an experienced senior wordings professional with over 20 years’ experience in the market. Prior to joining the LMA in 2025, Claudia held senior underwriting and wordings positions at Hiscox for 19 years.
Chris Mather
Senior Executive, Technical Underwriting
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Chris serves as the Underwriting lead at the LMA, overseeing Cyber, Property, Casualty/Liability and P&C Treaty. With three years at the LMA, he manages the class of business committees, ensuring their effective operation.
Before joining the LMA, Chris held senior roles in underwriting and portfolio management at AIG, Assurant and Castel. Earlier in his career, he gained valuable experience as a broker with Marsh.
Lloyd Martin
Executive, Technical Underwriting
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As an Executive, Technical Underwriting, Lloyd works on wordings production, helping to draft and review LMA model wordings. He provides technical support to members and conducts research relevant to the market. Lloyd also represents the LMA at meetings and on external groups.
Prior to joining the LMA, Lloyd worked as an Account Executive at a software development company in London, where he was responsible for the full sales cycle of Luminance’s AI powered legal process automation platform.
Lloyd holds a first class honours LLB in Law with Politics from the University of Manchester.
Shazia Rennison
Executive, Technical Underwriting
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Shazia began her career with the Non-Marine Association before its merger with the LMA, where she moved into a role in the Communications Team. She later took on responsibility for managing and supporting the Lloyd’s Wordings Repository (LWR) and was subsequently also appointed Secretary to the newly established Joint Specie Committee (JSC) for Specie and Fine Art Underwriters, part of the LMA’s Underwriting Team structure.
Neil Roberts
Head of Marine & Aviation
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Joined the market in 1985. Responsible for the marine and aviation activity at the LMA. Chair of the IUMI Policy Forum.
